illustration

Announcement: I will be appearing as a guest speaker talking about my illustrations with acclaimed author Maxine Beneba Clarke at the Sydney Writers Festival this year (2017)!! Click here for the program.

This page covers some of my cartooning, children's book illustration and general drawing works.

(above) A photo of one of the pages of The Patchwork Bike. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests in the USA. The brothers aren't that "crazy" at all are they? That's why she's smiling proudly.

(Above) A drawing dedicated to the Syrian people fighting the Assad Regime and US / Russian Imperialism (2017)

On November 15th, I posted this image (above) as a response to the Paris attacks...."It is indeed very very sad what has happened to innocent people in France. The sadness can get overwhelming. Although it gets hard to watch these events as they're churned through the media, especially when powerful governments can bend things towards a nationalist fervour - to further vilify refugees and to somehow place France as a land of the free - a lonely victim, a pacifist amidst a virulent, extremist force that is evil personified. Don't get me wrong, ISIS is extremely destructive. But just like the Charlie Hebdo incident, France's own connection with the world gets lost in translation, and it becomes very easy to forget the country's source of power over the last 200 or so years: Oppression, exploitation and division of poorer and less developed regions of the globe including sections of the middle east"

(above) Title: 'The Slingshot', (graphite pencil on paper). Once again Palestine can't be avoided or forgotten although the world-wide corporate media does its best to skew their reports to either a 'balanced' account between two equal sides (ie Palestine vs Israel), or they wildly exaggerate Palestine as the terrorist state, when the opposite is true on so many counts. This drawing is a response to the latest (as of late October, 2015) attacks by Israel as the militarised state continues to bludgeon Palestinians into ever smaller and restrictive zones while stepping up its support for Israeli settler expansion on Palestinian land.

(above) This A3 size poster was created for the local Melbourne band Agency Dub Collective for one of their gigs. I used acrylic paint on paper. I wanted to respond to the reality that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Word is that about 85 of the richest people in the world own more wealth than the poorest half of the world's population - that's about 3 billion people.

(Above) 'Same Shit', (2015) graphite pencil on paper. This was made in response to the Liberal Party's leadership challenge (Australia) that occurred on 14th September, 2015. The Liberal party of Australia (the governing party in coalition with the National Party) is basically a party that is conservative to the bone, yet the media makes out that there are real differences between leaders.

(above) When the Australian government announced it was bombing Syria (supposedly to target ISIS), their real motives are least favourable to the Syrian people themselves, and somewhat give indirect assistance to the Syrian Assad government which continues to massacre Syrians and cause the current massive emigration of refugees to Europe. Many refugees have died during travel or have been taken in to prisons as they enter hostile nations.

(below) Some drawings (approx A4 size, graphite pencil on paper) in response to the Charlie Hebdo killings. I took the position that while the killings were reprehensible, the overall anti-Islamic fervour cultivated by Western governments with support from many intellectuals/artists should be challenged. The inherent racism this produces fuels and justifies the ongoing occupations and destruction of Middle Eastern regions by Western governments.